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Subject: Re: Distributed perft, current standings and trends

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 22:09:41 12/12/03

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On December 12, 2003 at 23:31:41, Slater Wold wrote:

>On December 12, 2003 at 21:37:14, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On December 12, 2003 at 20:09:23, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On December 12, 2003 at 17:26:04, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>>>I was wondering if it may be better to track the stats by trillions of moves
>>>>done instead of on a block by block basis. Because the current way doesn't seem
>>>>as if it'd be completely fair. For example.. lets say computer X is twice as
>>>>fast as computer Y. However, computer Y completes two smaller blocks in the same
>>>>time it takes computer X to do one. Now the stats report that computer Y has
>>>>done two blocks, looking like it is twice as fast as computer X when actually
>>>>the reverse is true. Just something to think about. Thanks for the project, I
>>>>always love the distributed stuff. :)
>>>
>>>Good point.  My P4 2.0Ghz laptop worked on the same problem (set) for 6 hours...
>>>
>>>My P4 3.06Ghz finished one in 20 minutes.
>>
>>Seems my computers are getting the longer problems now.. that what you're
>>seeing? Even with one of my 2.5's pulling 230,000knps I'm getting 3000-4000
>>second (last one was 3460 seconds) blocks.
>
>Last problem:
>
>97096137599 nodes in 624.76 seconds (155412Knps).
>
>I was doing a bunch of other stuff while this one was running.  Probably would
>have only taken 400s - 500s at full speed.

Hmm.. bad luck for me then I guess. It's going full speed.. I'm just getting the
HUGE blocks for some reason.



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